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...upper East Side, tables were moved outdoors for a block party. The guests included Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Andy Warhol and Designer Calvin Klein. At One Fifth, a Greenwich Village restaurant decorated with fittings from the cruise ship R.M.S. Caronia, a patron quipped: "We've hit an iceberg." Pianist Nat Jones scrounged a candle to light his keyboard and played It Ain't Necessarily So. Unfortunately...
...Died. Nat Dorfman, 81, journalist, playwright (Errant Lady, Take My Tip) and press agent who represented more than 300 Broadway shows; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dorfman began working as a press agent in 1920, and later wrote a humorous column for the King Features Syndicate. Dorfman retired last January after 17 years with the New York City Opera...
...other changes made by the Council, are temporary and will be debated next fall, before a final vote sometime in the future. But instead of the rigorous offerings in physics, math and biology, the revised area's heading is broad enough to include many of the current Nat Sci offerings and a host of Psych and Soc Rel courses. Contrary to Rosovsky's wishes, students will not necessarily receive a minimal level of math or technological understanding. But more important, the heading will probably end up like the natural science section of the current Gen Ed scheme...
...after half the dorm went donw in flames on the Nat Sci 3 final while Carlo was calmly equating his way through Chem 10, hostilities broke out. One of the hockey players, a monster from South Boston who had really wanted to be a doctor but found it interfered with his slap shot, carried a particularly heavy load home from Father's Six one night and stopped in front of Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months...
...Biology, stands out at Harvard, not for being a brilliant biologist, but for being a radical. He teaches the infamous gut Natural Sciences 36, "Biological Determinism," which is a semester long critique of theories that assert genes are the prime determinants of behaviour and intelligence. The staff teaching Nat. Sci. 36 blatantly stated their relaxed grading policy and the University emasculated the course, offering it only on a pass/fail basis and making it unacceptable for filling the general education requirement. Lewontin also helps teach a biology course on social issues with a similar political perspective and grading policy...